Monday, November 15, 2010

Loeb wins the Wales WRC round.


World champion and greatest rally driver Sebastien Loeb rounded off a superb season with victory in the Wales Rally GB on Sunday, finishing more than 19sec ahead of Petter Solberg.

The Citroen driver, who secured an unprecedented seventh consecutive World title in October, took control of the rally on Saturday and extended his advantage on each of Sunday's four stages to win by 19.1sec.

It was Loeb's eighth victory of 2010.

He said afterwards: "It was really tough and Petter was really fast from the start, doing very few mistakes.

"It was a difficult battle but I took a lot of pleasure from the stages and really enjoyed this rally, which was definitely the longest battle I've had this season
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Citroen privateer Solberg finished second, ahead of Ford's third-placed driver Jari-Matti Latvala but it was Latvala who took second in the overall standings, with Solberg third, only two points behind.

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